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...unraveling, as sectarian factions are again edging toward another bloodbath. Meanwhile, Arab autocrats remain entrenched, Arab democrats are feeling abandoned, and Iran's Islamic revolution is enjoying a second wind. For all the grand ambition of President Bush's interventions in the Middle East, a veteran Western diplomat recently offered TIME the following glum assessment: "The region is in as serious a mess as I have ever seen it. There is an unprecedented number of interconnected conflicts and threats...
...much-anticipated voyage to Turkey that kicks off Tuesday, Benedict trades in his Pilgrim-in-Chief hat for his helmet as the Roman Catholic Church's Diplomat Maximus. It is largely new terrain for the 79-year-old Pontiff, a trained theologian who spent two decades in the Vatican working on doctrinal matters. The terrestrial exigencies of diplomacy will touch on both geopolitics and inter-religious relations during the four-day visit, as Turkey is both 98% Muslim and the historic home of a competing Eastern branch of Christianity. Everything, of course, will be amplified in the wake of Benedict...
...trip as the homilies and handshakes. On his first four voyages, Benedict was able to wave to the passing crowds from his plexiglass-covered white Popemobile. In Turkey, he is expected be riding everywhere behind the black-mirrored windows of one of three identitical armored cars, much more a diplomat on a tense mission than a pilgrim on a celebratory journey...
...speech by a North Korean diplomat at the Kennedy School of Government that had been tentatively planned for tomorrow has been cancelled after the State Department refused to grant the official a visa, the University said yesterday...
Jackson said that visa issues come up once in a while and that it was not unheard of for a visa to be denied. She added it was the first time that she could recall a North Korean diplomat coming to Harvard for a speech...